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4 weeks ago | 
fivebooks.com | Aria Aber |Miranda July |Sanam Mahloudji |Elizabeth Strout
recommended by Kit de Waal The 2025 shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction features a family saga about formerly rich Iranian refugees, a surprisingly funny tale of ISIS brides and a "weird" midlife crisis adventure in suburban California. We asked the bestselling novelist—chair of this year's judging panel—to talk us through the six finalists. Thank you for joining me to discuss the 2025 shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. What were the judges looking for?
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Aria Aber |Pagan Kennedy |Erica Ezeifedi
I love it when my very specific interests meet, and that is exactly what happened with this roundup of items to use to make your bookish space like a Wes Anderson movie. And I know I’m also going to be adding a few books to my TBR from this list Cozy winter mysteries to snuggle up with. I do love a good seasonal read. Speaking of the season, it’s got a lot of great books coming out.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
entertainment-mag.com | Aria Aber
Meanwhile, Nila lives in a building defaced by swastika graffiti,probably the handiwork of skinheads living down her hall.Women in head scarves have been stabbed on the streets. Buildings housing asylum seekers keep being set on fire, as do immigrants’ bakeries. And so, attempting to escape some of these limits, rules and perils, Nila lies. She lies to her father about the clubs, parties, drugs and sexual partners.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Aria Aber
Meanwhile, Nila lives in a building defaced by swastika graffiti,probably the handiwork of skinheads living down her hall.Women in head scarves have been stabbed on the streets. Buildings housing asylum seekers keep being set on fire, as do immigrants' bakeries. And so, attempting to escape some of these limits, rules and perils, Nila lies. She lies to her father about the clubs, parties, drugs and sexual partners.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Aria Aber
For Nila, the narrator of award-winning poet Aria Aber’s debut novel, Good Girl, Berlin’s party scene is an escape route from the city’s menacing streets and her own family’s haunting history. But Nila knows she’s just entering another kind of hunting ground. Amid the bald men handing girls pills, the pounding bass, flashing lights and fake friends, Marlowe Woods stalks his prey.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
bidoun.org | Yasmin Zaher |Aria Aber
At first, it was contained, it had borders, like the square of the canvas or page. One night , I moved the tables and chairs to the bathroom, and I didn’t think much of it, I thought that at most I was birthing a new cleaning ritual. The week went by like this, and I still did not know why the living room was empty. I was acting on pure instinct. I went to Home Depot and spent a lot of money there. I didn’t know why or on what or how.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Aria Aber |Philippe Besson |Sally Rooney |Richard Powers
Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul' Raven Leilani 'A no-bullshit must-read debut' Kaveh AkbarIn Berlin's underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century, nineteen-year-old Nila finds her tribe. In their company she can escape the parallel city that made her, the public housing block packed with refugees and immigrants, where the bathrooms are infested with silverfish and the walls outside are graffitied with swastikas.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
scremesreport.substack.com | Ellen Atlanta |Aria Aber |Adam Dalva
An economist, a painter, and a novelist walk into a bar… rather than the start of a bad joke, this could very well be a description of any given Saturday night in the West London neighborhood of Bloomsbury in 1912. Before Brat, there was Bloomsbury — a collection of twenty-odd artists, writers, and minor aristocrats who formed the core of a hedonistic and experimental sub-culture in the midst of Edwardian London.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
yalereview.org | Aria Aber
THE POETS IN THIS FOLIO sing of lost and thorny love, of erotic and spiritual longing, and of the unbearable distances between desire and its object. Like the Sufi poets, these writers know that eros often lies in the improbability of union with the beloved. Like Sappho and Shakespeare, they also know that being in love is one of the poet’s natural conditions. Lovesickness sharpens the senses, attunes them to the odd gleam of the world.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
t.ly | Aria Aber
Aria Aber Click here to read a poem from Fady Joudah’s […]. We are entering the sixth month of the most recent war on Gaza and I have been wondering about the role of poetry, and looking to poets to help me understand what is taking place. One of these is the Palestinian-American poet and physician Fady Joudah, who has reported that Israeli airstrikes have killed more than one hundred of his family members in Gaza.
